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Interpretation of Common Rhetorical Techniques in Chinese and English

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DOI: 10.25236/iwacll.2019.039

Author(s)

Hua Wang

Corresponding Author

Hua Wang

Abstract

Chinese and English are two widely used languages in the world, which belong to two different language families, and there are lots of similarities in rhetoric. The author introduces briefly some common rhetorical devices in English and Chinese so as to benefit Chinese and English bilingual learners.

Keywords

Rhetoric, metaphor, exaggeration, parallelism